Christian Datoc

Christian Datoc is a White House reporter for the Washington Examiner. He previously covered the White House, Congress, and campaigns for the Daily Caller. Christian, who hails from Atlanta, Georgia, graduated from Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina, in 2013, where he majored in political science and played varsity baseball.

An American Airlines plane takes off from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

Beltway Confidential

Yes to an American-United Airlines merger

James Rogan · April 17, 2026 6:00 am

People demonstrate outside the European Court of Human Rights

Equality, Not Elitism

Time for EPA to put away the megaphone and bring back the microscope

Houston Keene · April 17, 2026 6:00 am

Peter Magyar speaks to press at podium

Beltway Confidential

How Peter Magyar’s Hungary can become an economic powerhouse

Olga Khakova · April 17, 2026 6:00 am

Kamala Harris poses for a photo with Nida Allam, chairwoman of the Durham County Board of Commissioners, and her son, Abdul Allam Aziz.

Patriotism and Unity

Kamala Harris announces she’s thinking about losing again

Kimberly Ross · April 17, 2026 6:00 am

A sign advertises free pregnancy tests and abortion information outside the Woman's Choice Pregnancy Resource Center.

Fairness and Justice

New York can’t claim “choice” while silencing it

Andrea Trudden · April 17, 2026 6:00 am

Bison statues cast in bronze are on permanent display outside the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, Friday, March 20, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Equality, Not Elitism

Smithsonian’s woke leadership must go before America’s 250th

Mike Gonzalez · April 17, 2026 6:00 am

The aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and other warships cross the Strait of Hormuz into the Persian Gulf.

Courage, Strength, and Optimism

The Strait of Hormuz will decide the future world order

Bradley Martin and Liram Koblentz-Stenzler · April 17, 2026 6:00 am

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., walks at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, April 14, 2026.. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Schumer’s handpicked Senate recruits trail primary challengers in early fundraising

Samantha-Jo Roth · April 17, 2026 6:00 am

Then-Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump listens as Senate candidate former Rep. Mike Rogers, speaks at a campaign event at the Ryder Center at Saginaw Valley State University, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024, in University Center, Mich.

Central Michigan district a bellwether for House majority fight

David Mark · April 17, 2026 5:59 am

Yemen's Houthi security soldiers stand next to a billboard depicting the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump, during a demonstration staged to show solidarity with Iran on April 3, 2026 in Sana'a, Yemen. Yemen's Iran-backed armed Houthi group has warned they will move to shutter the Bab Al-Mandeb Strait through missile-drone attacks if Gulf nations join the US-Israel war on Iran. (Photo by Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images)

Let’s review the red lines Iran is still rejecting

Guy Benson · April 17, 2026 5:55 am

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The Catholic Great Awakening

Timothy P. Carney · April 17, 2026 5:52 am

Bugondo forest chimpanzee standing and a branch and screaming. (Photo by: Godong/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Chimping out: A civil war in Uganda between two troops of chimpanzees

Dominic Green · April 17, 2026 5:49 am